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Measure Management & DAX Editor

Anyone who uses PowerBI long enough has had a PBIX with 50-60 measures and it has become time consuming and tedious to mantain. In Excel you can do a quick find/replace to edit several formulas - in PowerBI you need to select each one individually. An "excel-like" interface for editing measures would save a lot of time! This would take PowerBI to the next level regarding productivity. I've prepared a mockup for this as well as a DAX Editor. Let me know what you think.

Mockup: https://i.imgur.com/z6TBOQb.png?1

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      • Marcelo Silva commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Best mockup I've seen!! In a fully centralized data storage, a variable/measure that depends on native fields can be dragged across to other PBIX just as natural and whether the new pbix consumes the same native fields then it can attempt the calculation.

      • Tim Heng (Excel MVP) commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Brilliant idea, great mockup that clearly highlights the benefits. The only thing you're missing in the DAX Editor is a "check formula" button. I also suggest that you cross-post this into the Excel Uservoice site as well, because the Excel measures interface, while better than the existing Power BI one, could also be improved in this way.

      • Billy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Very good idea; only thing I would add is some kind of mechanism to bulk-format measures i.e. if you've just made 10-20 measures and they all need to be a specific format (#,# or #.#%) you can select them and apply to all.

        Would save a lot of time rather than clicking on each and updating or hard-coding the format in the DAX.

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      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        A 'find' feature for the GUI is also relevant, as it helps one to quickly jump to a column in a query (M Language) or in DAX.

      • James Cronin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I love it! But definitely needs grouping! It's so hard to keep things organized for my own use, let alone collaborating with others on dev. I have well over 100 measures in a couple of my pbix files, and while strict naming conventions help, mine seem to render the Q&A useless.

      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        We really need a revamped DAX editor soon -- or at least let us expand the current DAX editor window. It doesn't suit large statements well.

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